Candidate Records: Voting Histories and Public Filings

A candidate's record is public, even when it's not easy to find. Voting history, financial disclosures, past statements, and committee assignments all sit in searchable government databases, and we pull directly from those instead of relying on what a campaign ad or a rival's press release says about them. That means checking the actual roll-call vote behind a claim like "voted against the bill twenty times," reading a candidate's filed financial disclosure rather than a summary of it, and separating an endorsement from a donation, since the two get conflated constantly in campaign coverage. We also track how a candidate's public statements have shifted over time, with dates and sources attached, so you can see the evolution of a position rather than a single quote pulled out of its timeline.